Account Manager

Gaslight Creative, an award-winning boutique agency located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, is looking for an experienced Account Manager. This is a fast-paced, dynamic and client-facing role at a fun, flexible, family-forward company. If you are a marketing rockstar, we invite you to apply to become part of our small but powerful team.

Responsibilities

• Builds strong, long-term client relationships by maintaining frequent contact with the client
• Has business acumen to articulate how the clients’ business objectives and marketing strategy translate to client needs and to creative actions
• Proactively engages with client on projects to mitigate issues, respond to clients timely and resolve issues ensuring client contentment
• Manages clients’ budgets and billing
• Drives and facilitates client and internal meetings and pro-actively prepares the team for the meetings/presentations to ensure everyone is aligned, prepared and organized
• Ensures quality on client deliverables for accuracy and meeting defined goals
• Manages all aspects of creative and technical production for print and digital deliverables from client discovery to completion
• Develops and manages timelines to ensure deliverables and projects remains on track and sensibly takes the appropriate action when off track
• Prioritize tasks and deliverables for each project for the team and issues status reports
• Foster a positive, collaborative work environment

Skills/Experience

• College graduate
• Minimum of 5 years in marketing, communications, or advertising in agency setting
• Copywriting skills required
• Media and/or print production experience preferred but not required
• Organization, attention to detail and follow-up skills are incredibly important
• Ability to think strategically, take direction and have the confidence to move things forward
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative environment with changing needs and requirements
• Must be comfortable collaborating with other team members as well as clients
• Must be able to inspire progress while maintaining empathy and an understanding for both your clients and team members. Authenticity is a must
• Must have the ability to work in the gray and be solution oriented and not get rattled by delay, project limitations, or ambiguity
• Ability to break down project scopes, create a project plan, identify tasks, navigate process, risk, milestones all while being deadline driven

How to Apply
Applicants who cannot work on-site at our St. Cloud location daily and/or who do not meet the required skills/experience need not apply. No phone calls or site drop-ins please; email your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to we.are@gaslightcreative.com.